Audience: End Users (not programmers)
Main Focus: making users from other O/S worlds comfortable with what is unique (new to them) about their SGI Unix desktop environment.
Please note that this is not meant to be a comprehensive review of the desktop. It was inspired by the popular Mac-to-Indigo Magic Transition Guide, and is for the explicit purpose of addressing the parts of our environment that might be new and confusing to people from other environments.
1. Understand login accounts and user names.
2. Aquaint yourself with the terms "home directory" and "pathname."
3. Find out about IRIX windows.
4. See that from the Toolchest, you can get anywhere you need to go.
5. Realize that an icon on the desktop background is a reference to the original.
6. Learn how you can copy a file from one system to another (over a network).
7. Figure out how to become secure with system security and "permissions."